Germinal(1993)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 9

In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.



The Cabbage Soup(1981)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.



The Fugitives(1986)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not ...



Buffet froid(1979)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Black comedy about solitude and the dehumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. First introduced is Alphonse Tram, an unemployed young man. His only neighbour ...



The Return of the Tall Blond Man(1974)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

With 'little captain' Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy", Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "...



Violette Nozière(1978)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.



La victoire en chantant(1976)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they ...



'Merci la vie'(1991)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Camille, a naive schoolgirl meets an intiguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the ...



Les malheurs d'Alfred(1972)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Alfred has always been down on his luck. An unlucky baby, he turns into... an unlucky child before metamorphosing into... an unlucky teenager! As an adult, he manages to become an architect...



Dupont Lajoie(1975)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

As every summer, Georges Lajoie, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite. They join old friends, the Schumachers and the Colins. Brigitte Colin, the ...



Die Fälschung(1981)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he...



Les misérables(1982)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.



Canicule(1984)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A fugitive on the run from the law and carrying several million dollars hides out in the house of a farm family. The tables turn when the family turns out to be even more criminally ...



Le sucre(1978)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.



Le bal des casse-pieds(1992)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0



Un linceul n'a pas de poches(1974)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Michel Dolannes resigns from a major newspaper as a journalist to launch a new journal 'Le Cosmopolite' which reveals all kinds of shady deals.One day, he is killed but who is the killer ?



Comment réussir... quand on est con et pleurnichard(1974)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0



Pick Up Your Belongings(1983)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0



Le matou(1985)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Florent Boissonneault and his young wife Elise always had one dream: own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their dream become reality, but only to quick ...